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ROARING GOOD TIME: A traditional Chinese lion performs a celebratory dance for good luck in Thornhill Sunday. The festival marked the launch of the First Canadian Chinese Seniors Association of Vaughan, as well as the Chinese New Year. This year is the Year of the Rat. Photo by Philip Alves/Vaughan Today

The crowd continued to swell past the party’s advertised 2 p.m. start time.

The delay was a good thing, too. Organizers needed those few extra minutes to add chairs for the impressive and ever-growing throng.

And none of the hundreds filling the gym at Dufferin Clark Community Centre seemed to mind, anyway. Everyone was in a celebratory sort of mood.

Organized by the First Canadian Chinese Seniors Association of Vaughan, the Sunday event both helped ring in the Chinese New Year and mark the launch of the new association.

Dignitaries from the realms of business and government congratulated association founder Dominic Lee on the creation of the group, the first for Chinese seniors in the city.